Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Audiobook
The Sir Gawain and the Green Knight audiobook runs an estimated 3.8 hours (about 2.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 3.8 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day | 4 days |
| 2 hours / day | 2 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 3 days |
You'll finish in–by –
What our data says
- At 3.8 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 99% of the romance audiobooks we measured.
- That's 54% shorter than the average romance audiobook (8.3 hrs across 3596 titles in our dataset).
Computed from romance audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.
Who is this for?
Best for romance listeners who want a central love story and a historical setting: a weekend-size listen at 3.8 hours (estimated).
About the book
A collection of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines religious and social values. Pearl is apparently an elegy on the death of a child, a poem pervaded with a sense of great personal loss: but, like Gawain it is also a sophisticated and moving debate on much less tangible matters. Sir Orfeo is a slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition. It was a special favourite of Tolkien’s. The three translations represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals.
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Sir Gawain and the Green Knight audiobook?
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight runs about 3.8 hours, our estimate from its 128 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2.5 hours.
Is the Sir Gawain and the Green Knight audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
When was Sir Gawain and the Green Knight first published?
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous was first published in 2001.
